NEW: #IFSWorkingPaper: The rise of online dating and heterogamous marriages 📗 Read Yujung Hwang, Fangzhu Yang and @paulaaureo.bsky.social's new paper on how the diffusion of online dating platforms has shaped intermarriage patterns by race and education here: ifs.org.uk/publications...

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "Intergenerational mobility in socio-emotional skills" By Orazio P. Attanasio, @paulaaureo.bsky.social, & Alessandro Toppeta www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky #publiceconomics @ucleconomics.bsky.social @uclpolicylab.bsky.social ‬@sofi.su.se

This is a (very) short thread on a recent paper with the great Orazio Attanasio and Alessandro Toppeta on “Intergenerational Mobility in Socio-Emotional Skills” (forthcoming at ‪@jpube.bsky.social)! (1/7) @ucleconomics.bsky.social @uclpolicylab.bsky.social‬ @sofi.su.se ‪@clscohorts.bsky.social

📣 Check out my latest article with R Inafuku, T Halliday and Lester Lusher on air population, test scores ...and a volcano!

Join @ucleconomics.bsky.social this May for this year's annual Gorman Lecture and Conference 2025. Find out more about this year's programme and book your tickets ⬇️

We at @ucleconomics.bsky.social have extended the application deadline to our MA degrees by a week (until May 8th)--all nationalities warmly welcome!

This year's Gorman Lectures at UCL will be given by one of my heroes, Ariel Pakes. I can't wait!

It's been a while since I did a standard lit review thread, but here's one for #econsky #econtwitter about an important literature that's been growing recently: the effect of supply- and demand-side interventions on fertility in LMICs

We are recruiting an Econometrics Adviser. The role would suit someone with a recent PhD (or a masters and some experience), and an interest in empirical IO. This is a unique opportunity to work on high-profile cases and with great data! www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

Recently accepted to @reveconstudies.bsky.social, "Industrial Policy Implementation: Empirical Evidence from China’s Shipbuilding Industry" from Barwick, Kalouptsidi and Bin Zahur: www.restud.com/industrial-p...

I have a new paper on “Prediction Sets and Conformal Inference with Censored Outcomes” with the great Weiguang Liu and Elie Tamer. Prediction Sets and Conformal… what? I know, I know! Here comes a (very) short thread on what we do in the paper. (1/5)

Agnes Norris Keiller presented a great paper with @paulaaureo.bsky.social and @johnvanreenen.bsky.social on how we can use data on firms' turnover and employment expectations directly in production function estimation. www.nber.org/papers/w32725 2/

NEW #IFSWorkingPaper: Robust inference for the Frisch labor supply Michael Keane and Timothy Neal argue the AR test should be widely adopted in lieu of the 2SLS t-test for estimating Frisch labor supply elasticity. Read here: https://buff.ly/4fhBJ2G

The ONS has today released results from two new data collection efforts on public-sector productivity: a public-sector version of the existing Management and Expectations Survey and a public-sector time use survey. Overall, management practices look similar in the public and private sectors. 1/

🚨New (very short) paper alert: "Bayesian Fama-MacBeth Regressions" with @SBryzgalova and Jiantao Huang tinyurl.com/bddpezz6 🧵1/n #Finance #Econometrics

I am trying to be more active on here, and have not yet seen an IO or org econ starter pack, so here is an attempt at one: go.bsky.app/Rchu8QX Please shout out if I have forgotten someone, or when others join. #EconSky

🎉 🎉 Check out our paper with I Rasul (UCL and @theifs.bsky.social) and P Souza (QMUL), now forthcoming at the REStud. You can find replication codes either at the REStud or on Github (shorturl.at/hO24S)! www.restud.com/identifying-...

Very interesting fresh working paper on production function estimation w. subjective firm expectations by Norris Keiller, @paulaaureo.bsky.social, & @johnvanreenen.bsky.social: arxiv.org/pdf/2407.07988 Just in time to serve as overture to John's UK Econ Advisory Council chairmanship gig, I suppose!😉

In his jmp, Wenhao uses data and model of altruism within networks to study the evolution of patrilineal kinship in facilitating male marriages in 19th-century China amid development spurred by a forced port opening.